Premiere Dates Announced for NBC’s Believe and Starz’s Da Vinci’s Demons Season Two
Steve Barton
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A couple of shows we cover only peripherally – “Believe,” from J.J. Abrams and Alfonso Cuarón, and David S. Goyer’s “Da Vinci’s Demons” – have announced their premiere dates so given the parties involved, we thought we’d share.
NBC’s “Believe,” from executive producers Abrams (“Revolution”) and Cuarón (Gravity), who also directed the pilot, will have a special preview on Monday, March 10th, at 10 p.m. following “The Voice” and will premiere in its regular time period on Sunday, March 16th, at 9 p.m. Check out a sneak peek.
“Believe” Synopsis:
Levitation, telekinesis, the ability to control nature, see the future… since she was born, Bo (Johnny Sequoyah) has had gifts she could neither fully understand nor control. But now that she is 10 years old, her powers have become stronger and the threat from malevolent forces that would use her abilities to control the world has grown more dangerous. With her life and future in jeopardy, Bo’s protector, Milton Winter (Delroy Lindo, “The Chicago Code”), turns to an unlikely source to keep her safe — Tate (Jake McLaughlin, “Crash”), a wrongfully imprisoned death row inmate who’s lost his will.
Tate and Bo begin an extraordinary journey, one in which trust must be earned. On the run and traveling from city to city, every place they stop and everyone they meet will be changed forever. But they’ll have to keep going to stay one step ahead of the sinister forces after Bo’s power… because it will take a miracle to keep them safe forever.
Also starring are Jamie Chung (“Once Upon a Time”), Arian Moayed, and Kyle MacLachlan (“Portlandia,” “Twin Peaks”).
For “Da Vinci’s Demons” we have three new stills, a trailer, and some official details.
From the Press Release:
The anticipated second season of the historical fantasy “Da Vinci’s Demons,” an original series created by David S. Goyer, who most recently wrote the screenplay for Man of Steel and its untitled sequel as well as being co-writer of The Dark Knight trilogy, will premiere on STARZ in the U.S. on Saturday, March 22nd, at 9pm ET/PT.
The ten-episode drama, produced by Adjacent Productions, follows the ‘untold’ story of the world’s greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, during his turbulent youth during the Renaissance. Starz greenlit “Da Vinci’s Demons” for a second season following its record-setting first season weekend debut on STARZ on Friday, April 12, 2013. Outside of the United States and English-speaking Canada, “Da Vinci’s Demons” is distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide, in partnership with FOX International Channels (FIC) who broadcasts the series to audiences in 125 countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa following Starz’s exclusive premiere in the U.S.
Brilliant and passionate, the 25-year-old Leonardo da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer, and idealist. As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time.
Starring Tom Riley (“Monroe,” I Want Candy) as the title character, Season Two of “Da Vinci’s Demons” finds Florence thrown into chaos in the wake of the Pazzi conspiracy. Lorenzo is gravely ill, and Leonardo da Vinci must push the limits of his mind and body to defend the city against the forces of Rome. While the Medicis go to unthinkable lengths to deal with new threats, da Vinci continues on his quest to find the fabled Book of Leaves and uncover the secret history of his mother. He’ll come to realize that he has lethal competition in his quest — new enemies who may be even worse than the forces of Pope Sixtus. His search will take him to faraway lands and force him to reevaluate everything he knew about the world and his own history.
Riley’s co-stars include Laura Haddock (The Inbetweeners Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy), who plays Lucrezia Donati; Elliot Cowan (“Luther,” “Lost in Austen”), who plays the de factor ruler of Florence, Lorenzo Medici; Lara Pulver (“True Blood,” “Sherlock”), who plays his wife, Clarice Orsini; and Blake Ritson (Serena, “Upstairs Downstairs”), who plays the ruthless and unwavering Count Girolamo Riario, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV.
Jane Tranter, head of Adjacent Productions, served as Executive Producer. The series was shot in Swansea during the summer and fall of 2013. The series is produced by Adjacent Productions, a label launched in 2012 that sits alongside BBC Worldwide Productions in order to identify new and original programming created and produced under the company’s umbrella.
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